Program Manager

The Role

We are hiring a Program Manager to own the delivery of Lyzr’s government programs end-to-end. You will be the single accountable person between the government customer and our engineering, delivery, and security teams, from award through deployment through renewal.

This is not a coordination role. You will own scope, schedule, compliance posture, and customer outcomes on programs that involve on-prem and air-gapped deployments, classified or controlled data environments, and multi-stakeholder federal reviews.

• End to end delivery of federal and public sector programs, including milestone plans, deliverable schedules, risk registers, and status reporting to both the customer and Lyzr leadership
• The government customer relationship at the program level, including contracting officers, COTRs, technical leads, and sponsor organizations
• Coordination of on-prem and air-gapped deployments of the Lyzr platform, working with our infrastructure and Optimus appliance teams
• Compliance and security work streams, including FedRAMP, NIST 800 53, CMMC, ATO packages, and security documentation, in partnership with our security team
• Contract administration support: SOW and task order management, deliverable acceptance, invoicing milestones, mod requests, and subcontractor coordination
• Capture support for new opportunities, including RFI and RFP responses, past performance narratives, pricing inputs, and teaming arrangements
• Internal escalation and unblocking, translating government requirements into engineering language and engineering constraints into government language

• US Citizenship. Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance
• 6 or more years of program or project management experience
• Direct experience with the federal acquisition lifecycle: FAR basics, task orders, CLINs, deliverable acceptance, and working with contracting officers
• Track record delivering technical software or infrastructure programs on schedule in constrained environments
• Working knowledge of federal security and compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, NIST 800 53, FISMA, or CMMC, and what an ATO process actually requires
• Clear written communication. You will write status reports, program plans, and customer facing documents that senior government stakeholders read
• Comfort operating in a fast moving startup where the process you need may not exist yet, and you will build it

• Experience with AI, data platform, or cloud infrastructure deployments in government settings
• Familiarity with on-prem, edge, or air-gapped delivery models
• Prior work with defense, intelligence community, or federal civilian agencies, or with government innovation vehicles such as IQT, DIU, SBIR, or OTAs
• Active or recently active clearance

• Based in Jersey City, NJ. Expect travel to customer sites in the DC metro area

Lyzr AI is an equal opportunity employer. Employment eligibility requirements for this role are driven by US government contract obligations.